RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Peter Chanel

1803 - 1841

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Peter Louis Marie Chanel, SM (12 July 1803 – 28 April 1841), was a Catholic priest, missionary, and martyr. Chanel was a member of the Society of Mary and was sent as a missionary to Oceania. He arrived on the island of Futuna in November 1837. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Peter Chanel has received more than 229,484 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Peter Chanel is the 1,890th most popular religious figure (down from 1,729th in 2019), the 3,133rd most popular biography from France (down from 2,971st in 2019) and the 156th most popular French Religious Figure.

Memorability Metrics

  • 230k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 59.48

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.50

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.69

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Peter Chanel ranks 1,890 out of 3,187. Before him are Nilus of Sinai, Saint Publius, Ingrid Vang Nyman, Patriarch Job of Moscow, Ursus of Solothurn, and Karekin I. After him are Itta of Metz, Camillo Ruini, John XIV of Constantinople, Pishoy, Bill W., and José de Jesús Pimiento Rodríguez.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1803, Peter Chanel ranks 43. Before him are Elisa Radziwiłł, Ludwig Richter, Franz Lachner, Luís Alves de Lima e Silva, Duke of Caxias, C. L. Gloger, and Eugène Isabey. After him are Albert Sidney Johnston, Yevfimiy Putyatin, Duchess Marie Louise of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Joseph Whitworth, Alexander Dukhnovych, and Gustaaf Wappers. Among people deceased in 1841, Peter Chanel ranks 27. Before him are Countess Claudine Rhédey von Kis-Rhéde, Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin, George Green, Princess Augusta of Prussia, Honoré V, Prince of Monaco, and Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz. After him are Agustín Gamarra, Alessandro Rolla, Bernhard Romberg, Peter Andreas Heiberg, Louis de Freycinet, and Ignaz von Seyfried.

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In France

Among people born in France, Peter Chanel ranks 3,133 out of 6,770. Before him are Adrien-Henri de Jussieu (1797), Louise Weiss (1893), Eugène Isabey (1803), Charles Henri Hector d'Estaing (1729), Bertrand of Orléans-Braganza (1941), and Beatus Rhenanus (1485). After him are Itta of Metz (592), Renaud (1952), Claude Le Jeune (1528), Jean Leray (1906), Salomon de Brosse (1571), and Henri Lebasque (1865).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In France

Among religious figures born in France, Peter Chanel ranks 156. Before him are André Vingt-Trois (1942), Audomar (600), Émilie de Villeneuve (1811), Lupus of Troyes (395), Jacques Hamel (1930), and Jean du Vergier de Hauranne (1581). After him are Itta of Metz (592), Jean du Bellay (1492), Pierre Robert Olivétan (1505), François-Joachim de Pierre de Bernis (1715), Bénézet (1165), and J. F. Oberlin (1740).

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